Delmarva Central Railroad Co. (DCR) has delivered the first rail car of liquid lysine for ADM and liquid feed ingredients for Novus International Inc. to the newly opened Seaford Transload Terminal in Seaford, Delaware.
A roadway was built next to an existing rail siding at the Seaford facility to allow direct rail-car-to-truck transloading of liquid ingredients. The terminal provides Novus trucks round-the-clock access for transloading activities, DCR officials said in a press release.
Novus was the first customer secured at the new terminal, said DCR President Mark Rosner.
"We look forward to serving Novus International as a customer, and I am pleased with our team’s efforts to research this market, invest in the Seaford facility and develop this business," Rosner said.
For ADM, DCR's second liquid transload customer at the site, DCR built a complete pump, pipe, tank and truck load-out system to allow the company to ship rail cars of liquid feed ingredients from the Midwest directly to markets on the eastern shore of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, DCR officials said.
DCR unloads the cars into two new 30,000 gallon tanks, which allows trucks to load at the terminal on-demand. The entire liquid transloading and storage system is heat-traced and insulated and was designed by DCR, railroad officials said.
The liquid feed ingredients are critical to the poultry industry located on the Delmarva Peninsula, they added.
A subsidiary of Carload Express Inc., DCR operates 188 miles of rail line in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. It provides daily rail service and a direct connection via Norfolk Southern Railway to the North American rail network.
Source: Progressive Railroading Daily News
